# Mongrel\_cluster --prefix and static content

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-prefix-and-static-content/190884>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 30, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-prefix-and-static-content/190884 "2010-06-30T00:03:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![sjm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@sjm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjm)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-prefix-and-static-content/190884/1 "2010-06-30T00:03:03Z")

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Hi Everyone

I have been searching for an answer for this all day, stumbling from  
page to page trying examples that don’t work!

Anyway, I am trying to run multiple Rails apps sitting behind  
Apache2.2.

It is nearly there, apart from the static content (images, etc) is not  
delivered anymore (since configuring mongrel with --prefix flag).  
Note: this only applies to URLs not generated by Rails, such as those  
in CSS files.

I can understand why, for instance the CSS files contain links such as  
url(/images/foo.jpg) which work quite happily when mongrel is  
delivering only one app and does not need to be configured with –  
prefix…

I thought that Apache Rewrite rules would be the answer, however I am  
not competent enough in their use to construct them myself yet, I  
found some on the Internet but alas this failed.

Short of modifying all the links to include the prefix to match  
mongrel, I am at a loss on what to do!

Any help with be greatly appreciated!

Kind Regards,

Steven